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Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum are making Bachelor history. They're the third couple from the ABC franchise to make it to the altar.

Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter met when she was the original Bachelorette. They married in 2003. ABC televised it.

Bachelor star Jason Mesnick married Molly Malaney — not his final rose recipient (Melissa Rycroft), but a runner-up on his season — in 2010. ABC aired a wedding special.

Now, in ABC's special two-hour show, The Bachelorette: Ashley and J.P.'s Wedding, we'll see another happy ending.

Or, let's hope, a happy beginning for the couple.

It won't be a live broadcast of the ceremony. It's already happened. On Dec. 1, Ashley, who was rejected by Brad Womack and went on to choose J.P. over Ben Flajnik last year, got married in a Pasadena, Calif., ceremony officiated by none other than Bachelor host Chris Harrison.

As the newlyweds talked in a press call Tuesday, they called each other "babe" and sounded happy about how the big event went down.

"I would love to tell you that she was a bridezilla and that it was crazy and stressful but to tell you the truth - knock on wood - everything went more or less very smoothly," said J.P., 35. "There was no fighting."

L.A. wedding planner Mindy Weiss did all the work, said Ashley, 28. "We said do what you do best and we'll be really happy with anything. It turned out to be above and beyond anything we could do on our own.'

One downside that couldn't be controlled: Rain. "It rained every day we were there except for the ceremony for three or four hours. That was the biggest stress," said Ashley.

The weather, however, wasn't on her mind as she walked down the aisle in her custom Randi Rahm gown. "I wish I could say it was something other than 'Wow, my train is so heavy I'm not sure I can make it all the way down,'" she said.

When J.P. started laughing, Ashley said, "Babe, I'm sorry, but that's the truth."

J.P. Rosenbaum kisses bride Ashley Hebert.(Photo: Adam Taylor, ABC)

Considering they met on a reality show, it made sense to have the wedding become a reality special. "We felt it would come full circle," said Ashley.

Added J.P., "I think there are very few people in this world who get to have a fantasy wedding, the wedding of their dreams." He said they if they passed it up, they figured "20 years from now, we'd look back and say, you know what? We should have done it. We were given a gift; why not do it?"

Among the guests we should be able to spot are Bachelor franchise alums, including Emily Maynard, Jason and Molly, Trista and Ryan, Jillian Harris, Ashley Spivey and new Bachelor Sean Lowe (whom neither Ashley nor J.P. have met). Ashley's dog, Boo, was carried down the aisle by Hebert's sister, Chrystie.

There is one moment, however that we won't see on the special. Chris Harrison and another producer took their ties off, knotted them together and made a limbo bar for everyone. "You definitely won't see that, but it was a fun part of the night," says Ashley.

What we will see are some of the Jewish traditions that were important to J.P., including him in a yarmulke, they signed a ketubah and they were lifted up in chairs for the traditional Hora dance. "There was definitely a lot of Judaism," he says.

As for something borrowed and something blue? "Oh my goodness, I didn't do that," said Ashley. "I'm hoping it's not bad luck!"

As for who caught her bouquet? "I didn't even throw my bouquet," said Ashley. "It was too pretty to throw. We had so much going on, we forgot."

When the couple was asked when they'll take a honeymoon and where they'll escape to, J.P. said, "We're still not 100% sure." Work prevented them from going right now. "It'll be next year before middle of the year," he said.

"One of the first couple months," Ashley added.

"It'll be tropical, I'm sure," said J.P.

They're happy just hanging out together in Princeton, N.J., now, they say.

"We have really meshed just so well," says J.P. "We haven't had any serious, serious obstacles to overcome in the last two years. Babe, do you disagree?"

She agreed, adding, "I don't think we've had anything major. We're very different. He's from Long Island; I'm from a small town in Maine. At first I think that took like a second to adjust. That sounds like not a great answer. But that's the only thing we've had to kind of adjust to - along with the moves." (They live in Princeton, N.J., so that he can commute to New York for work, while she works in Philadelphia.)

Said J.P.: "We knew we had a lot of growing to do as a couple. That sounds kind of cheesy, but we knew the love was there."

Adds Ashley, "We needed to experience it."

So the next question is: How many kids do they want and when do they plan on getting started?

"How soon? Oh gosh," said Ashley. "We're just going to chill out for a little while. We don't really have a plan yet. They're definitely in the somewhat-near future, but there's no specific timeline."

J.P. says, "We do go back and forth on how many. She wants one, I want two."